I believe that soldiers will bear me out in saying that both come in time of battle. I take it that the moral courage comes in going into the battle, and the physical courage in staying in.
WOODROW WILSONI do not want a government that will take care of me, I want a government that will make other men take their hands off me so I can take care of myself.
More Woodrow Wilson Quotes
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The object of love is to serve, not to win.
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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.
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Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
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The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
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We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.
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What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
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America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.
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I would never read a book if it were possible for me to talk half an hour with the man who wrote it.
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A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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Progressiveness means not standing still when everything else is moving.
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Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence is a practical document for the use of practical men. It is not a thesis for philosophers, but a whip for tyrants; it is not a theory of government but a program of action.
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Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.
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Conformity will be the only virtue and any man who refuses to conform will have to pay the penalty.
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A man’s rootage is more important than his leafage.
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We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.
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